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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files on the following radical groups and their movements to change American government and society: COINTELPRO: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI, Abbie Hoffman, Black Panther Party, North Carolina, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, Fire Bombing and Shooting at Kent State University, Malcolm X, MIBURN (Mississippi Burning), Muslim Mosque, Inc., Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman Underground Organization, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Communist Infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Content: 87,391 images

Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Library

Part of Gale/Cengage Archives Unbound collection.

Full Text: Yes

Coverage: 1956-1971

Subjects: History Modern 1800-, History US, Archives and Primary Sources

Digital collection of the papers of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a civil rights organization formed in 1946 by a merger of the International Labor Defense and the National Federation of Constitutional Liberties.

Digital collection of documents related to the 1979 "Greensboro Massacre." Materials include files from the FBI, local and state police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

Digital collection of documents related to the integration of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Materials primarily consist of records from the Department of the Army regarding the confrontation between the Governor of Alabama and the President of the United States, which resulted the federalization of the Alabama National Guard.

Digital archive of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documentation on James Meredith’s battle to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962 and white political and social backlash. Other notable primary sources include Meredith’s correspondence with the NAACP, and positive and negative letters he received from around the world during his ordeal.

Content: 8,792 pages

Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Library

Part of Gale/Cengage Archives Unbound collection.

Full Text: Yes

Coverage: 1961-1962

Subjects: African American Studies, Government Information, History Modern 1800-, History US, Archives and Primary Sources

Digital collection of documents related to African American writer Amiri Baraka. Materials include rare works of poetry, organizational records, print publications, over one hundred articles, poems, plays, and speeches by Baraka, a small amount of personal correspondence, and oral histories.

Full Text: Yes

Coverage: 1913-1998

Subjects: African American Studies, English and American Literature, History US

Digital collection of FBI documents related to the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). The RNA was a social movement organization that advocated for the creation of an African American majority country in the southeastern United States, argued that the federal government pay reparations to African American descendants of slaves, and demanded a referendum of all African Americans to allow them to decide their citizenry.

Digital collection of the papers of African American communists and civil rights activists James and Esther Cooper Jackson. The collection includes biographical material, correspondence, lectures, notebooks, speeches, and subject files pertaining to the Communist Party and the Southern Negro Youth Congress.

This collection presents the complete files of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) kept at the U.K. National Archives as FO 898 from its instigation to closure in 1946, along with the secret minutes of the special 1944 War Cabinet Committee "Breaking the German Will to Resist.

This collection provides a window into the political, social, and economic development of Cambodia, the rapidly maturing “modern” state in the heart of Southeast Asia.

Traced here is the critical legacy of Prince Norodom Sihanouk (1922-2012), the nation’s controversial and paradoxical leader. Khmer nationalism, loyalty to the monarch, struggle against injustice and corruption, and protection of the Buddhist religion were in the forefront of developments in this period. The archive is an essential resource for the study of Southeast Asian history and the U.S. role in the war in Vietnam. The files are arranged according to the classification system of U.S. State Department Records, and they cover a wide range of internal political affairs.

Full Text: Yes

Coverage: 1960-1963

Subjects: Archives and Primary Sources, Area Studies, History Modern 1800-, History US, History World, Mathematics, Political Science, South Asian Studies

German Colonial aspirations in Asia and the Pacific ended with the start of the First World War. Japanese Army forces seized German leased territories in China and the Japanese naval forces occupied the German Pacific colonies.

The Treaty of Versailles legitimized Japan's aggression and the territories were officially mandated to the Japanese government. This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the German colonial governments and later the Japanese mandate authorities, and the activities of the native peoples.

Full Text: Yes

Coverage: 1910-1929

Subjects: Area Studies, History Modern 1800-, History World, Japanese Studies

The Dutch East Indies experienced the replacement of company rule by Dutch government rule and the complete transformation of Java into a colonial society and the successful extension of colonial rule to Sumatra and the eastern archipelago during the early 20th century.

The boundaries of the modern state of Indonesia were defined during this time and the process of generally exploitative political, military, and economic integration began. This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the Dutch colonial government and the activities of the native peoples.

This collection comprises 170 German-language titles of books and pamphlets. The collection presents anti-Semitism as an issue in politics, economics, religion, and education.

Most of the writings date from the 1920s and 1930s and many are directly connected with Nazi groups. The works are principally anti-Semitic, but include writings on other groups as well, including Jehovah's Witnesses, the Jesuits, and the Freemasons. Also included are history, pseudo-history, and fiction.

Full Text: Yes

Coverage: 1909-1941

Subjects: Archives and Primary Sources, History Modern 1800-, History World, Jewish Studies

Independent India’s first years were marked with turbulent events - partition, a massive exchange of population with Pakistan, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and the integration of over 500 princely states to form a united nation.

This collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of the Subcontinent between 1945 and 1949, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned India in the postwar period.

Full Text: Yes

Coverage: 1945-1949

Subjects: Archives and Primary Sources, Area Studies, History Modern 1800-, History World, South Asian Studies

Over 16,000 pages of State Department Central Files on India and Pakistan from 1963 through 1966 make this collection a standard documentary resource for the study of the political relations between India and Pakistan during a crucial period in the Cold War and the shifting alliances and alignments in South Asia.

Full Text: Yes

Coverage: 1963-1966

Subjects: Archives and Primary Sources, Area Studies, History Modern 1800-, History US, History World, Political Science, South Asian Studies

The standard reference source on the unprecedented industrial mobilization of an entire economy to fight the war of 1914-1918, this 12 volume set has previously only been available in a few select libraries with which the British government deposited copies.

It is essential for anyone who wants to study the economics behind World War I, the career of David Lloyd George and the process of state intervention in industry. The history of the Ministry of Munitions is one of the most extraordinary and instructive episodes in modern British history. Within less than three years, David Lloyd George and his successors transformed the face of British industry and created the largest government department the county had ever seen. As many as 1,600,000 men and 800,000 women were employed on protected munitions work on behalf of the Ministry. Control was exercised over the iron, steel, chemical, and engineering industries. Over 15,000 firms were engaged on munitions work. A third of them were controlled establishments', giving precedence to government contracts and employing labor on conditions prescribed by the Ministry. More than 200 factories were either nationalized or specially built for munitions work.